Using Distortion can help your positioning to land Ethereal Chains.
You can chain Sigil of Malice and Ethereal Chains to prevent characters with blink from escaping for up to 4 seconds.
Distortion allows you to be aggressive with your other spells while being able to return to safety.
When you see Tahm Kench use the shield from Thick Skin, remember that he just opted out of a good deal of healing. He will also not accumulate new gray health until Thick Skin comes off cooldown. Use this to your advantage!
Watch out for Kench's Abyssal Dive - you can cancel it's channel with immobilizing crowd control effects.
The stats shown on this page clarify several influential LeBlanc versus Tahm Kench matchup stats that may help us understand the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, LeBlanc’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Tahm Kench’s ratio of NaN, showing that LeBlanc may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Tahm Kench..
LeBlanc typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Typically, she receives less damage than Tahm Kench. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, LeBlanc usually loses when taking on Tahm Kench, with a 44.3% win rate. Thus, LeBlanc makes a poor counter to Tahm Kench.
While LeBlanc does have a much lower winrate compared to Tahm Kench, when on opposite teams, LeBlanc also has a much greater level of difficulty that makes her a more time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking LeBlanc into Tahm Kenchas her relative depth means that you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, LeBlanc has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Tahm Kench. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in LeBlanc vs Tahm Kench matchups, Tahm Kench is the better champ with a much lower win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
LeBlanc is a garbage counter to Tahm Kench. Focus your actions on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as LeBlanc against Tahm Kench.
To truly master LeBlanc in order to counter Tahm Kench during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
LeBlanc typically accumulates a similar amount of CS as Tahm Kench. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values displayed on this page to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your LeBlanc versus Tahm Kench build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Shadowflame, and Luden's Companion. When LeBlanc bought at least these three items in her build, she performed significantly better versus Tahm Kench than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, LeBlanc boasted an average winrate of 44.3% battling Tahm Kench with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of crushing Tahm Kench as LeBlanc, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Treasure Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Scorch runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for LeBlanc vs Tahm Kench counterpicks, this mixture of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 44.3% win rate overall.
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